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Almanac of Alien Encounters

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I've seen similar books produced for the youth market, but this one is remarkable for actually being well researched (a step many of these sort of books skip!), concise and thorough. Though apparently created for the youth market, this is a volume which I'd recommend to journalists or any members of the media who may need to quickly access succinct, accurate background information. A perfect, slim volume to have on hand. Numerous sidebars augment the entries, and it includes an index (always appreciated). The neutral, intelligent tone - neutrality being somewhat rare for topics such as these - is most welcome and will serve the reader well.

In the past, for a comprehensive overview of alien encounters I'd have steered people towards Alien Discussions, the voluminous (600+ page) proceedings of a conference held at MIT in 1995; an event co-chaired by Harvard's Dr. John Mack which brought together a diverse range of academics for a rare, comprehensive exploration of the alien encounter experience.

This slim 168 page almanac has nearly bested that 600+ page volume, owing to the solid effort that Eric Elfman obviously put into making it as comprehensive and succinct as humanly possible (no pun intended). And the sketches are nice, too.

This author has a series of Almanac's that are great! I look for his name and when I read a book by him, I know it's going to be informative and honest, fascinating and fun. He also writes good fiction. I reccommend this book highly.